My goddaughter Shayla is an superb dancer and sometimes I play that Dance video game with her. There is never really a loser when you dance with someone you love, but Shayla is definitely the winner when it comes to moving to the beat. … Read the rest

Editors’ Note: It was twenty-five years ago today that John Lennon was murdered outside the Dakota building on Central Park West in New York City. We doubt many CounterPunchers have read the following 1971 interview with Lennon done by CounterPunchers TARIQ ALI and Robin Blackburn.

Besides a disregard for the environment, or people and animals destroyed by the oil spills, The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development reports big oil is number one when it comes to taking bribes. Here are some details from Common Dreams:

Large multinational corporations are behind the majority of documented bribes worldwide, with most payers and takers hailing from rich nations, according to a study released Tuesday by the 34-nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).… Read the rest

+Wow. This is a madcap romp through the favorite songs of 2014 featuring many of the most popular YouTube personalities including John Green and his brother What’s His Name, The Pentatonics, Bark Baker, and lots of other superstars of the streamwaves. … Read the rest

New research from Symantec shows that government spy technology called Regin infiltrate s the computers of small businesses and individuals using a Microsoft “back door” – or would that be back “window”?

Florida’s Public Service Commission voted last week to cut energy efficiency targets for power companies and to do away with a solar rebate program in the state, decisions that served to scale back the state’s already paltry efforts in renewable energy.… Read the rest

The ancients said every experience leaves a residual element in our mind, and modern neuroscience agrees. Here is more from The Vedanta Center about such “samskaras” and the yoga techniques developed to help you manage this:

The “Yoga Sutras of Patanjali” constitute the most important and the fundamental work on yoga psychology.… Read the rest

We all wanna get the bad guys, so the trick is to define who the bad guys really are! Government propagandists have pointed at boozers, then stoners and commies, and now religious nuts, keeping the whack-a-mole focus right where they want it as they line the pockets of Haliburton, et al with $50 per cup of coffee and other swindles on the American public.… Read the rest

Big boxes and online bargains have crushed downtown America, forcing local businesses to close, including Greaton’s Jewelers, owned by my friend Karen Greaton, who is ironically a direct descendant of some of the very city founders of New Richmond. How sad it is that the thriving community that once existed has been lost, perhaps for good – or would that be “for bad”?… Read the rest

Go ahead, try and be clever about your passwords. You are likely making predictable choices, according to Jeff Fox, leaving yourself vulnerable. How smart are your tricks? Consider this:

In a 2013 study for DARPA (the Federal Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) called Pathwell, security consulting company KoreLogic found that, among the thousands of users within an unnamed Fortune 100 company, roughly half had relied on just five patterns to compose their passwords and 85 percent had relied on just 100 patterns.… Read the rest

Did I post this already? I must be getting older than I thought cuz I honestly don’t remember. But I am a zygote compared to the oldest rocks ever discovered in our solar system. They have been dated back about 4.57 billion years, meaning Earth obviously finished forming later than that.